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Next House speaker: Legislators the enemy, promises change

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Florida state Rep. Richard Corcoran, soon to become one of the most powerful people in state government, delivered a fiery speech on Wednesday where he promised to usher in sweeping changes in everything from schools to legislative ethics and how long judges can stay on the bench. Corcoran, an attorney and one-time top aide to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio when Rubio led the Florida House, told his fellow House Republicans that legislators were the “enemy” because they turn their back…

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Today on Context Florida: Richard Corcoran, Iowa redistricting and the GOP debate

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Today on Context Florida: Speaker-Designate Richard Corcoran is poised to take over the reins of the Florida House of Representatives for the 2016-2018 term. Former state Rep. Mike Fasano has known him for more than 30 years and says finer public servant than Corcoran would be hard to find. He has the skills, abilities and Tallahassee “know-how” to be an effective leader. He knows how to “get the job done,” Fasano adds. In the far-from-perfect world of politics, Martin Dyckman says…

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Read here without downloading: Richard Corcoran’s ‘manifesto’

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An 86-page policy paper from Florida House Speaker-Designate Richard Corcoran (nicknamed “The Manifesto” by reporters) calls for a new “legislative culture of purpose” that includes, among other things, a more transparent budget process. Many of the reforms proposed by Corcoran, a Land O’ Lakes Republican, in his Wednesday acceptance speech are also in the manifesto, which has a working title of “Blueprint Florida,” according to a copy provided to FloridaPolitics.com. “This is a working document, written years ago by a…

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Mike Fasano op-ed on Richard Corcoran: ‘A finer public servant would be hard to find’

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My good friend Speaker-Designate Richard Corcoran is poised to take over the reins of the Florida House of Representatives for the 2016-2018 term. I’ve known Richard for more than 30 years. A finer public servant would be hard to find. He has the skills, abilities and Tallahassee “know-how” to be an effective leader. He knows how to “get the job done.” Richard is also a committed family man whose wife and six children are truly his pride and joy. His…

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Bill Day’s latest: New Speaker Richard Corcoran’s quixotic quest

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As the Florida House officially installs state Rep. Richard Corcoran as speaker, the Land O’Lakes Republican certainly faces a daunting quest. Through the pen of Bill Day, Corcoran’s mission – against special interests, which is seen as a blight on Florida politics – is positively quixotic. Day casts the new speaker as Don Quixote de la Mancha, the iconic literary hero depicted in Pablo Picasso’s famous 1950s-era sketch. Alongside Don Quixote, pictured on his horse Rocinante, is his squire Sancho Panza on a donkey.…

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Speaker contender Eric Eisnaugle pens op-ed blasting top-down House leadership

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Rep. Eric Eisnaugle put pen to paper this weekend and wrote a scathing op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel calling for an end to “autocracy” in the state House’s internal affairs. Citing a regime of strictly enforced loyalty and near-universal deference to leadership – which he described as a “pyramid of power” – Eisnaugle blasted the House’s prevailing culture in his hometown paper’s Sunday edition. “Under the rules and practices that govern the Florida House today, a member who upsets leadership runs the risk of losing…

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AFP airs ads thanking GOP lawmakers for refusing to expand health care in Florida

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The Florida Legislature’s failure last week to come to an agreement on redrawing the state’s congressional maps was just the latest example of state Republicans unable to come together. A battle over Medicaid expansion roiled the Legislature for most of its Regular Session this spring. Nearly everyone in the state Senate supported proposals that would have expanded Medicaid and provided health care coverage to hundreds of thousands of low-income residents, but the House of Representatives remained resolute in its opposition. And despite…

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